Wolverine: "You you actually go outside in these things?" Cyclops: "What would you prefer? Yellow spandex?" Deadpool: "I got you covered."

Two facts about the movie that Minty didn't mention. 1: One of the action choreographers was Hong Kong stuntman and director Corey Yuen. His assistant choreographer and interpreter was a guy named Jonathan, better known as Ke Huy Quan of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. 2: Despite this being based on a comic book, Singer encouraged the cast to not read the comics for research. There was a comics loving Production Assistant who went out of his way to write and present comics based bulletpoints to the cast behind Singer's back, even convincing Jackman to say Wolverine's catchphrase "Bub", which wasn't in the original script. The PA's name is Kevin Feige, who is the mastermind behind the MCU and president of Marvel Entertainment.

Viggo Mortensen didn't want to commit to a multiple picture deal....but shortly after became a last minute replacement for one of the lead roles in one of the biggest multi picture deals of all time.

Gotta thank Russel Crow for casting Jackman as Wolverine. These movie studios should realize that an unknown actor is the best way to go as long as they look the part and can act.

"Well what would you prefer, yellow spandex?" Literally LOLed in the theater, and I was not alone 😂

Patrick Stewart is brilliant as Xavier and Hugh Jackman is brilliant as Wolverine. 😀👍

The scene where Wolverine threatens the drunk guy at the bar by slowly extending his middle claw towards his throat is iconic, as those claws were nothing short of convincing - unlike the cartoon claws in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

"Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand."

Another interesting fact: the truck driver who dropped Rogue off at the bar where Wolverine fought in the cage arena was played by George Buza who voiced Beast in the animated series. Buza wasn't gonna be the only voice actor from the cartoon to be in the movie, Gambit voice actor Chris Potter who also played Peter Caine in Kung-Fu: Legend Continues auditioned to play Cyclops

For those who may not have caught it: David Hayter is the original voice of Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series of games...

My son was a pre-teen when the X-Men cartoon came out in the 90s. I watched it with him to make sure it wasn't something I didn't think he needed to watch, and got hooked myself. It was a good storyline with good values. I wish more shows today were made this way. Even today, he's a huge X-Men fan.

I liked when Magneto pulls up his sleeve and looks at his tattoo. That explained him in about 5 seconds.

Storm was not in the background. The character Storm is always cautious and holding back, because her powers are amazingly destructive if fully unleashed.

I am an Extra in this Film. It was really fun to be part of it. They shot many scenes in and around my city,

I wish they would have kept the extended classroom scene. Storm is giving a history lesson about a Roman Emperor who converted to Christianity to stop the persecution of Christians in Rome, which is good foreshadowing to what magneto is planning.

Lol you would have thought Minty would have dressed as Prof. X instead of Wolverine

If you wanna get technical. Blade walked so Marvel could run. Since Marvel was dying and Blade helped save it's life and ultimately started the comic book movie phase.

Patrick Stewart as Professor X rates as the biggest no-brainer casting in the history of cinema. That part was cast by everyone the moment TNG hit the air a decade earlier, regardless of director. It’s why Bryan Singer didn’t bother trying to cast anyone else in the role at the time.

I was hooked on the first X-Men from the opening credits. Hearing Prof. X's monologue about humans versus mutants as well as the intensity of the scene of a young Magneto being separated from his parents was amazing. But once Wolverine entered the movie I was sold. The movie could've ended with the scene where Cyclops and Storm save Wolverine and Rouge I would've left the theater completely satisfied. I still enjoy watching that scene alone from time to time. When Wolverine senses something's off, raises his eyes, takes two whiffs and extracts his claws, I get goosebumps. Regarding Dougray Scott, I'd heard that Dougray got hurt while filming Mission Impossible 2, which prevented him from appearing in the X-Men movie but I looked it up and apparently Dougray partially blames Tom Cruise for not letting him do both projects. Apparently they were knee-deep into the production of MI: 2 and Dougray wanted to split his time but Cruise refused to let him go. I don't know if that's just sour grapes from Scott but I do find it interesting that history would repeat itself with Cavill being unable to shave his mustache for Whedon's Justice League reshoots. Anyway, clearly Jackman was meant to play Wolverine, so no matter how it shook out things were supposed to turn out the way they did.

It was a dream come true to see Patrick Stewart taking on the role of Professor Xavier, Hugh Jackman was great as Wolverine, and mystique's makeup was fantastic.

I do remember when Blade came out and everyone was shocked over how it was actually really good. Rumour has it, Blade's success saved Marvel and definitely helped get X-Men and Spiderman made.

The x-men and batman cartoon of the 90s are to me the best ever made till this day

I still have the soundtrack. On the actual cover, it says Michael K-Men.

Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever seen Minty without his sunglasses on. So him "cosplaying as Cyclops" seems pretty accurate 😂😂😂

Lol, a professor X who said "Sha'mon" Thanks for the good laugh!😂

X-Men was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, but lost to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film was also successful at the 27th Saturn Awards where it won categories for Best Science Fiction Film, Director (Bryan Singer), Actor (Hugh Jackman), Supporting Actress (Rebecca Romijn), Writing (David Hayter), Costumes. Nominations included Best Supporting Actor (Patrick Stewart), Performance by a Younger Actor (Anna Paquin), Special Effects, and Make-up. Singer also won the Empire Award for Best Director.

Such a great Movie. The first 2 are brilliant. Days of future past is also a great one

I loved the 90s comics: X-Men, Spider Man and Gargoyles. They were excellent

Just blew my mind learning that Toad played Darth Maul 🤯🤯🤯

A video about the X-Men animated series of the 1990s would be nice.

I must have seen this in the theater at least 4 times. I was super excited for it.

That X-Men animated intro is still the most exciting VSM bub 🦹‍♂️🤖😈

I worked with a lot of the X-Men crew on some smaller films and commercials. I heard a lot about X-Men and specifically Singer. Something interesting that I heard from multiple people is that Jackman is such a nice guy, he would help out the crew on set. He knew the crew by name and everybody loved him. Very nice guy. Very humble.

I was in my late teens to early twenties when the animated series first aired, so I appreciated it being a little more mature than other cartoons, like the Japanese anime I was getting into at the time. I read a novel called Planet X which was a crossover of X-MEN and Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which Storm gave Dr. Crusher the details she needed to create a holodeck recreation of Professor Xavier in his office. Seeing the rendering completed, her first thought was, "She was right, there was a resemblance." That always tickled me.

Minty - this is super trippy. I had a bout of 90s superhero nostalgia yesterday and watched Episode 1 of the X-Men cartoon. I agree with your assessment that this movie wasn’t a perfect film, but did an excellent job of introducing the movie universe it existed in. McKellan and Stewart added a ton of gravitas and the ensemble cast really fleshed out the heros and villains. The Senator turning into ooze was extremely disturbing… and I liked it.

Rogue was such an awesome character in the show. Best outfit, coolest personality. In the movie they made her even weaker than Jubilee. Such a shame. Not bringing in Gambit was also a huge fail.

Fun fact, David Hayter is also the guy who provide the voices of Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the Metal Gear Solid video game franchise.

RIP Michael Kamen He made Logan and Rogue's moment feel so special

I can't believe i was 18 when this movie came out, time really flies.

I have the novelization of this movie. It goes into more detail about the characters like Storm. It has a backstory about Storm and what happened when she was being whipped in her village.

MJ as Professor X ?! ....that is hilarious AF 😂

When this film came out, my brother and I were in college, and he took me to the theater to watch it. He was a comic book fan and I knew nothing of the series. We both thoroughly enjoyed the film. This was my introduction to Hugh Jackman and James Marsden - and all of the actors really suited their roles perfectly. And every time I see that water politician in any other roles, I feel like he’s going to turn into water. ((*shudder*))

I love this movie, this to me is a modern classic movie, without the animated series we would have this movie.

Awesome video Minty. One of my favourite movies ever. I still laugh when I hear the line where Wolverine says “you actually go outside in these things” And cyclops replies “what would you prefer yellow spandex”

If they wanted to keep the idea of alienation then why didn’t they just keep Jubilee? She was a young girl coming into her powers. Every time she got dazzled her powers would go off. A young person not knowing how to deal with her / their powers. That could’ve been ANY mutant really. They didn’t need to start with Rogue.

Finally Minty did an X-Men movie! You need to do the rest as well :)

Can't imagine any other actor who could embody Wolverine as well as Hugh Jackman.

Hugh Jackman was detained at Pearson International (Toronto) when his prop claws gave security reason to search his luggage after they saw them during X-Ray. It was during the audition period, but the guards got photos and autographs anyhow. It was a small blurb in my local newspaper.

For me, personally, X2 is so good, it makes the first one actually suck in comparison. As a writer, this has become my motto for the kind of sequels storytellers should be striving for.

While this and several other Fox X-Men films took a lot of Liberties with the material I really do enjoy this first X-Men film a lot. It's just a fun under 2 hours Magneto vs Xavier X-Men versus the Brotherhood movie with a straightforward plot. It's not super complex but it's filled with likeable characters and some fun action and that really overshadows the occasional wonky effects and not so comic accurate details.

😄😄😄😄 "boldverine" should participate the #Deadpool3 as a super variant of #Wolverine 😎

This is the only movie to date that i saw 6 times at the cinema, my local Odean even had Tyler Mane (Sabertooth) come and do an opening, i got his signiture, tall guy, very imposing but so friendly. I remember getting goosebumps at the introduction of youg Eric in the camp and whispering the name of each mutant as they first appeared on screen and just being super excited by this movie, as a massive fan of the 90s animated series i couldn't wait for this movie and i am excited about the figure line up for X-Men 97 to, i also had figures for this movie, the weird rubber faces on Wolverine and Sabertooth so you could get them to look like they were snarling, one toy i always wanted was Wolverine on Cyclops bike but i never found in my local toy store.

The memories attached to this movie are insane for me. I was born in 1986 and this is just one of those teenager movies for me that I remember clear as day how it made me feel. Along with the first spiderman movie. The production was so brand new and a real sight of the future of movies. Magneto always has the best power too. The mute of the lift of police cars always sends chills down my spine.

This movie is the one that made Hugh Jackman desirable to women all over the world.

Please do the rest of the trilogy, I love hearing funfacts.

I was so excited when this came out. Being a Marvel fan during my youth I thought it was about time some Marvel characters got a film that was worthy of them. This did not disappoint. Jackman did a great job, but I just always wish someone like Russel Crowe had taken the role (I'm aware he actually passed it on to HJ).

I'm surprised at minty didn't mention that originally before Wolverine got his origins in the comic book anytime he was shown an animated series the character Wolverine with portrayed as Australian yes Marvel Comics intended for Wolverine to be from Australia Wolverine makes his first animated series appearance in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends season 3 episode 7 I think the episode was called the X-Men Adventures or the X-Men's reunions Wolverine was depicted with an Australian accent then a year later for the pride of the X-Men pilot Wolverine again was depicted with an Australian accent when Stan Lee was interviewed about the pride of the X-Men he stated that Wolverine origin was that he was from Australia he also stated in the DVD extras for the 2000 X-Men film that he felt it was a sign when Hugh Jackman was hired because he always felt that they should have kept Wolverine an Aussie but it was Jim Lee who created The Wolverine Saga which made Wolverine Canadian. So yeah up until the Wolverine Saga then later X-Men the Animated Series Wolverine was always meant to be Australian.

Minty, you always make me smile! The cosplay was awesome

In the comics and cartoon series, my faves were Cyclops and Gambit. A pity the latter never made it into the movie.

The Hugh miss here is that Jackman originally was going to turn down the role, until he wife convinced him to take the role. She told him that both Ian and Patrick were involved in the film and he had always wanted to work with them in theater. He would later end up befriending both of them, after taking the part.

Just watch the trilogy this week. Hope you do all the X-Men movies including the wolverine trilogy.

Oddly enough you see Jubilee & Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde), both characters who Rouge was morphed into, in the American version. You see them both in Storm's class. And Kitty runs through a door to get her book from Professor X's office. David Hayter is also the voice actor most associated with Solid Snake, from the Metal Gear Solid series. He also wrote the script for X2 & based it loosely on the X-Men graphic novel; God Loves, Man Kills. Tyler Mane the actor who plays Sabretooth was a former professional wrestler. Jackman found working with him easy as Mane had so much experience "fighting" someone without hurting them. Mane went on to play Michael Myers. Rebecca Romijn actually injured scene partner Bruce Davison (Senator Kelly) in the helicopter. Davison did not complain. Romijn found out later. And unlike Jennifer Lawrence, Romijn spent countless hours in make-up for all 3 films. I met Ray Park once & asked him if he would've like have been Wolverine given his closer height & build & background in martial arts. He said he offered, just as Minty there was no actor tied to Wolverine. They told him someone was on the way & Jackman's convincing American accent being the thing that put him over. Neither Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen knew how to play chess, Singer assumed both of them would know how since they were both "English Gentleman" as he put it. So they both had to be taught what to do, so pieces weren't moved improperly. And if i remember correctly this is the movie where Hugh Jackman cut a stunt performer. He had 2 different sets of claws. One metal, the other foam. They had figure out a martial arts style for using claws, so it was new to everyone involved. Although Hugh Jackman is a dancer & a former PE teacher, they had a trainer get him into a shape. He 5'3" & loved Wolverine. He kept calling Jackman Logan & Wolverine the entire time. Famke Jannsen had previously worked with Patrick Stewart. She appeared on a Single Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Jean Luc Picard falls madly in love with her, but she is betrothed to someone else as part of peace deal. A peace deal, Picard has to oversee on behalf of the Federation. Not long after, Hugh Jackman & Halle Berry went on to co-star in Swordfish.

This was the start of the longest cinematic universe of superhero’s in history

David Hayter....better known as Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid games. I worked with David in Toronto....awesome guy

Pretty sure Jean Grey was always known as “Jean Grey”, that’s her given name. Her code names were Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Dark Phoenix and White Phoenix.

Can't wait to see Hugh in DP3

This movie was a long time coming, I also was introduced to the X Men through the Fox series cartoon and loved it! The trailer for this movie was great, it came on the TV as breaking news/ live TV. I didn’t even know they were making an X Men film I’ve never seen another film trailer debut like that since it was pretty cool at the time.

Do "Strange days" , im exited to see some more info behind that exellent movie. Love your channel Mark :)

It doesn't matter what they did, an 80's X-MEN movie would've been amazing

The Artist Who drew Wolverine Used the likeness from a character from the movie Slap Shot 1977. Actor Paul D'Amato who played Tim McCracken

Let’s goooooo, kept refreshing waiting for a video. Had a feeling you were dropping one lol

I think this movie was key to getting Marvel based movies mainstream appeal. Blade was Marvel's first truly successful movie which got the company on track, but it was more horror and rated-R. X-men made superhero films a mainstay and Spider-man really made them yearly blockbusters. I think X2 was the best superhero movie of the first, post 2000s wave of movies prior to TDK and the MCU films. I even liked it better than SM1 and SM2.

300 thousand million dollars? I don't think that's a real figure...

Great video

This movie was the first DVD I ever bought

Minty, I love that you upload as I'm getting ready for work. It makes my days start out awesome 👌 haven't missed a episode since 2020

This was a great new picture into do comic related movies. It wasn't until 2008 when I had finally had a chance to watch it, and it was impressive. I do agree, that X-men II was better, but being first, it provides a picture on how this series goes. Patrick Stewart was perfect in playing the roll of Xavier and that was another reason for giving me interest in watching it. Gives me more reason to see it again.

Been a lifelong fan of the X-Men in both comic, cartoon and film form. It's sad how they've fallen in the movie verse with the recent terrible entries. Hoping they make an epic comeback...

i dont think most people realized it but the dark pheonix was hinted in the first movie, if you pay attention, it is magnetos machine that wakes her up, and you see a dedicated camera shot of her looking concerned after the fight

Originally I hated this movie for not being like the Animated X-Men but over time I have learned to like it the more I learn about X-Men the movie the better it becomes.

I just can't imagine Wolverine being played by anyone other than Hugh Jackman - he absolutely owns the role!

I remember when this first came out, so many people were convinced that John (Pyro) was actually Johnny Storm, the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four. Their argument was always "Storm calls him John, so he must be Johnny Storm". I would point out Pyro's real name was also John, and that Pyro can only control fire, but not create fire, which it is shown he has to use a lighter.

My biggest issue with all of the X-Men movies is their treatment of Cyclops.

The 90's show and the Sega games got me into X-Men

Brilliant job 👏 👍 🙌 👌

5:58-I am so happy I met Cal Dodd over the weekend! Hearing some of those classic lines was AWESOME!

Pleasant surprise 🎉

Speaking of Patrick Stewart, a video about Star Trek: First Contact (1996) would be nice as that film had the actor's most memorable and most intriguing cinematic portrayal of Captain Picard. Oh yes, First Contact is the best Star Trek TNG movie ever.

I’d like to see a X-Force movie. Deadpool is my guy though and the X-Force joke team in Deadpool 2 got me, I was stoked for about five minutes and then they all got got lol. They’ll probably never do it but I got into X-Force through the Deadpool limited series comics. The story line in the comics about a virus that was offing mutants could make an interesting movie. I was legit sad when Multiple Man got sick and died in the comics. I think X-Force could be an R rated team comic movie.

Do one for the second one. One thing I cannot unsee EVERYTIME since the first viewing is that when Jean Grey is in the sick bay lying down, they used iPod headphones as sensors for her vital signs. 😆 🤣

While not Perfect, this Nostalgic Film revolutionized the Brand and Comic Adaptation as a Whole with Great Casting.

Another good one, Mark. Thank you.

90s: School ends 2:50 Get home at 3:15 X-Men starts 3:30 Watched every episode there was. Now my girls are watching em on Disney+

Dude, in an alternate universe, I could totally see Bob Hoskins playing Wolverine in the '80s

Keep it up on your work and this video and channel I ❤️ this video and channel Thanks you for your video and channel

The first X Men movie when I first saw was played like a extended trailer as had been admitted by Director Singer who stated that the 2nd movie X2 was the real X Men that he wanted to make. This was of course the breakout role for Hugh Jackman and one that he would become iconic for, despite not being short and stocky as he was depicted in the comic books 📚.

It might have been fun to have seen Storm go through her belief that she was a goddess of weather over the three movies, but I can understand why they didn't.

Saw this in theatre. Loved it then and still do.

I think the reason the X-Men movie worked was because it was primarily a science fiction movie and only tangentially a "superhero" movie. I feel the best movies of the superhero genre are actually dramas, horror, or a different primary genre that draws in normie and geek alike. Now that we have people making Superhero specific movies we are seeing failing box office numbers.

“Baldverine” had me rolling 🤣🤣🤣